* The underlinings in the text of the decree belong to V. I. Lenin. Ed.

This will not do. This is a point where one must be far more cautious.

Are there no rules on this matter at Komprod and at the People's Commissariat of Military Affairs?

# This is perhaps the most important and most dangerous point. It is impossible to allow the seizure of a second horse and a second cow.

Written between December 16, 1919 and January 24, 1920

First published in 1945 in the Lenin Miscellany XXXV

Printed from the manuscript